“I don’t know how to stop loving you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Make me remember what it feels like to be loved.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'll be whatever you need me to be.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I loved her. Oh God… I loved her. She was everything, ripped me apart and made me whole.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Was it wrong that all I wanted to do was kiss her?
I smiled, and Maggie blushed.
Oh God. So cute.
I knew then, I’d give this girl anything she asked me for. I’d probably beg her to take it.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'd lost myself somewhere along the way, and maybe my subconscious was telling me it was time I found that person again, because I sure as hell wasn't happy with who I'd become.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“She's get lost in my words while I'd get lost in those eyes.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'd struggled to supply the needs I didn't have the strength to provide, to give him hope when I had none, to give him joy when I had little to share. All I'd have to give him was my love.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“I'd always been willing. But I always fell short, every good intention I ever had never good enough.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Shifting my dozing child, I gathered him up and carried him to his room where I pulled back his covers and laid him in his bed. A burdened breath escaped his lungs, and he rolled to his side.
So precious and already so damaged.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“Because it shouldn't hurt to be touched”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
“My smile was soft as I looked down at the same broken girl who'd captured me, both of us so different yet somehow exactly the same.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from When We Collide
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“Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those who lived it contemporaneously with himself. He had no enemies and many friends.
But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch. One of the two.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from A Damsel in Distress
“... la luz depende de la presencia de otras luces. Si las quitas, el resultado es la oscuridad. Pero lo contrario no es cierto: si eliminas la oscuridad, el resultado es solo más oscuridad. La oscuridad puede existir por si sola. La luz no.”
― N.K. Jemisin, quote from The Broken Kingdoms
“sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and the hours, days, weeks
years
seem wasted –
stretched there upon my bed
in the dark
looking upward at the ceiling
i get what many will consider an
obnoxious thought:
it’s still nice to be
Bukowski.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Why?' Said Harry. 'For the big idea, Oliver. Someone comes up with the big idea - could be religion, could be politics, could be the race you belong to, or your clan, or philosophy, or economics, or your sex or just how many bleeding guineas you got stashed in the counting house. Doesn't matter, because the big idea is always the same - wouldn't it be good if only EVERYONE was the same as ME -if only everyone else thought and acted and worshipped and looked like me, everything would become a paradise on earth.
'But people are too different, too diverse to fit into one way of acting or thinking or looking. And that's where the trouble starts. That's when they show up at your door to make the ones who don't fit vanish, when, frustrated by the lack of progress and your stupidity and plain wrongness at not appreciating the perfection of the big idea, they start trying to to shave off the imperfections. Using knives and racks and axe-men and camps and Gideon's Collars. When you see a difference in a person and can find only wickedness in it - you and them - the THEM become fair game, not people anymore but obstacles to the greater good, and it's always open season on THEM.”
― Stephen Hunt, quote from The Court of the Air
“Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not. ”
― Alain de Botton, quote from Kuinka Proust voi muuttaa elämäsi
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